JWG

It's official!

It's official, the US government has declared me elderly! I got my Medicare card in the mail yesterday - they send them automatically to eligible people 3 months before their 65th birthday.

What do they know, anyway? How can I be elderly when I haven't even become middle-aged yet? I expected an orderly sequence here: A child, a Yuppy/Guppy, a middle ager, and an old folk - one step at a time. Of course I had gotten a prewarning about this event 15 years ago when the AARP started sending me my Modern Maturity subscription. What's this maturity thing - I haven't even decided what I am going to be when I grow up.

Of course, I'm happy to take the Medicare route. As a retiree from my company (Bull) I have been getting medical insurance at employee rates but that plan stops when I turn 65. Medicare costs just under $60 a month but has significant limits and deductibles and I can supplement it with First Seniority from Harvard Pilgrim, Secure Horizons from Tufts or several other disgustingly named HMOs for another 120-135 a month, one of which I will choose soon. This plan will be slightly worse than the one I get from Bull for $156 a month and similar to the $500 a month plan that ordinary citizen rsc who is unaffiliated with any company or government has to pay.

Well, if you had just stuck to the sequence like your younger Boomer siblings, you could now be regretting the foolish choice you made at middle age of dumping Robert for a younger model like Dean, and you don't like the convertible anymore either.

Thanks for the warning!

Have been getting those AARP notices when I turned 50 (Turning 52 this July - YiKeS!).......so this is what I got to look forward to!!!! LoL!.......am in the same dilemma......don't know what I wanna be when & IF I grow up......anyway thanks for the advanced warning!Art(I also was born an only child in NYC with no "Known" relatives 'cept for a niece & nephew in AZ. - I'm currently stranded in Hooterville - miss my smog & concrete!) )